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Good Times And Music With PAUL MARTIN From DEVILSKIN · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey, folch Savis is Paul here from Devilskin on the bass player, and
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  man, we're totally looking forward to returning to Australia. I think it's our
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  sixth or seventh time, but they are part of the Lagerfest tour and of
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  course the Froth and Fury gig as well. So man, I'm just really
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  excited to come back to Ozzy. You artful, Paul, Thanks for joining
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  us today. Brother, man, my pleasure, My pleasure mate. You
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  well, yeah, mate, I'm very good, yourself proven. Yeah,
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  yeah, I'm excited. It's excited when we've got things that booked up and
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  yeah, my favorite destination at the moment. So yeah, excited to be
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  coming over. Oh and you. Devil Skin returned to Australia as part of
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  the Traveling Lagerfest shows starting in Auckland on November the eleventh. Then you had
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  the Prist Search christ Church, Brisbane, Sydney and finishing Adelaide on November the
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  nineteenth. It is getting close now, made like ciber levels must be building
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  in the band. It's getting real totally and you know, to be sure
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  the bill with the halo effects for a start. Holy crap, man,
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  there's some legacy in that band, so you know, it's just going to
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  be unreal to be part of that bill and to be you know, get
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  to get to watch them every night Beyond the Black very exciting as well,
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  and man, they've got huge numbers in Germany and around Europe, so man,
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  it's going to be great to see them. And of course Lugensteine Lagostine
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  well, bro, Yeah, it looks intense and it looks like a hell
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  of a lot of fun, really does. If the name is anything to
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  go by, mate, there's gonna be plenty of bear fighting as well.
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  That looks exactly what's going to be going on. Yeah, plenty of drinking
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  out of boots and that sort of carry on. From what I can see,
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  it looks like a you know that. It just looks like fun and
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  you know it's it's a it's a diverse line up, a very cool act.
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  I think the crowd's in for a big treat, you know. And
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  of course you mentioned brother if you're as well, that's just that's the line
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  up from l Yeah, oh bro, yeah totally. I mean I'm a
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  huge Ossie music fan. Butterfly Effects. I've seen them in a tiny little
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  bar here and Hamilton years ago sunk Lodo. I'm absolutely rap they get back
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  together. Of course, emergency role one of my favors at the moment,
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  and we get to share the stage again with our mates Alien Weaponry and not
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  to mention, it'd be my sixth time I think seeing suicidal tendencies, So
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  looking forward to it. So what can we actually expect from Devil Skin at
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  these shows. Well, we've been working out, We've got a little bit
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  of new music under our belts and stuff, but we're going to be aiming
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  for some pretty high impact sets, So get a lot of energy and some
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  some brutal throat punches that we're going to disguise as songs. I like that.
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  It's been a couple of years since Devil Skin will last out here for
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  your own headline shows, mate, So what's changed with the band in that
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  time. I guess we've all sort of grown. You'd hope you're growing mature
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  a little bit, but I mean it's been a challenging a couple of years
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  for rock and roll in general, and we've got a big kicking the nuts
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  with the whole COVID thing, so it's been a good chance to regroup work
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  on new music and just take things one step at a time. You know,
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  made it made a little music video for the song let Me Breathe,
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  and it's been getting some good reactions and stuff, even though the radio stations
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  over here think it's a little bit too heavy to play because it's got Jenny
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  growling in it, but you get that. But man, we're just excited
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  about the new music and where we're just getting. It just feels better and
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  better every time. You know, each church we just get a little bit
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  more tight. We've got some big plans for next year because round about July
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  twenty twenty four, it's going to be ten years since we're released the debut
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  album We Rise, So we've been working on a few bits and pieces.
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  We might even record some sneaky covers alongside some new songs, and yeah,
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  we look forward to celebrating that as well. Right good. And of course
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  one of the other big things that changes in Nails is now a Gibson artists,
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  So tell us about that what it means, Oh mate, he's absolutely
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  so. He sort of kept it under his hat for a while, but
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  Gibson approached him and he's always been playing the guitars he's a Gibson nut as
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  I myself, you know, but I've got a dem endorsement, but no
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  one ever expects to get a you know, to become a Gibson artist like
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  that. So yeah, he took him by surprise, and he kept it
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  very quiet because he's actually pretty humble dude. And yeah, when when it
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  was all sort of locked and loaded and he had ordered this beautiful twin neck
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  six twelve s g thing, God damn gorgeous, and yeah, when that
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  turned up, Yeah, that's when it felt like things are real and he's
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  he's over the moon. I'm really soaked him because he's worked real hard.
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  There's a lot of guitar players that have I know, that spoker, and
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  he's got a true heart and you're really excited for him, really good.
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  And it's great to see the bigger labels actually, you know, supporting the
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  bands getting behind some names, you know what I mean, rather than just
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  slash or stuff like that. And you mentioned this a bit before, Mabel
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  going through the bit more detail, like next year is going to be the
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  tamped anniversary of your debut album We Rise, So what sort of special things
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  you got planned for that you will at the moment, we're just sort of
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  thrown around some ideas, but looking likely that we might do a couple of
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  vps and put a sprinkle of new songs, some songs that we're going to
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  remaster from We Rise, and maybe throw a couple of covers in there that
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  we're probably playing on stage at that time. But yeah, now we're just
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  going to have a little play with them and see how it goes. Haven't
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  really recorded covers before, we haven't, so that would be pretty cool.
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  Oh did you think that album still holds up a decade later? Yeah?
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  I really, Yeah, I can't fault it after all this time. Ten
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  years seems to be a long time, but it's it still sounds fresh and
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  new and exciting when I listened to it. You know, it's hasn't lost
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  that magic for me at all. And how would you say that Devil Sander
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  Rome musically as a band from that album to what you're doing now, it's
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  just, you know, a natural evolution. Sticking together for ten years,
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  I mean, everyone deserves a medal. You know. It's as hard in
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  the rock and roll business as it is, but yeah, it's it's it's
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  it's a milestone been together that long and you don't get you don't get to
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  stay together that long without sacrifice and compromise and not being a dick. Basically
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  it helps. Three quarters of us are family, so you know, kind
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  of cornered in that respect, but everyone just wants the same thing, you
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  know. It's it's just it's as simple as that. We'll strive to make
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  the next record, to make the next video, to make the next tour,
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  just to make stuff happen and to be a band. And that's that's
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  I think where we're happiest and strongest. So I think the last ten years
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  it's just became more apparent. We've dug in and worked hard. We've toured
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  a lot, and we don't intend to stop anytime soon. Before we let
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  you go, Bro, We've started up three new Spotify playlists to help our
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  listeners get acquainted with the band. So using Devil Skin Songs, can you
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  give us a song to get the party started, a song to potentially save
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  your marriage, and a song that could end your marriage? Okay, let
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  me Breathe could potentially end your marriage. Possibly Burning Tree might be the song
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  that could potentially save your marriage. Yeah, yeah, And how about one
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  to get the party started, the one to get the party started. It's
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  got to be do you see birds? All right, Paul, thanks very
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  much for your time. Brother. You'll be out here in Australia in a
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  couple of weeks, so we'll be here unfortunately, but best to luck with
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  the running shows, bro, and hopefully you catch it early in near Yeah,
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  man, totally. I hope you have a great time in Japan.
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  Hoping score for the bend here.